The Next Print Issue of PleinAir Magazine Is Hot in the Winter
Many painters love to paint winter scenes with their myriad whites and clear, cold air. But winter is also a time to regroup, to research, to reflect. The next issue of PleinAir magazine is chock full of information that can improve your art.
Artists Helping: Art Therapy for Struggling Adults
In this season of giving, many people are looking for ways they can make a difference and help other folks. Here’s one worthy cause, and an easy one for artists with extra art materials.
Parting Shot: It Takes a Village (or, Autumn in New York)
- Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today -
Salmagundi Club members and their painting friends recently gathered in New York City’s Greenwich Village to paint...
Artists and Conservancy: When a National Park Is Something Else
By Lori Putnam
In this series, artist Lori Putnam speaks on the role artists can play in the conservation and preservation of land, cultures, and...
Why This Works: Correct Capture of Dissipating Light (and Color)
- Jeanne Mackenzie reporting -
In this series, plein air painter and instructor Jeanne Mackenzie takes a look at new paintings by contemporary artists and...
Parting Shot: Caption Contest
- Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today -
OK, yes, we can guess the story. There was a Quick Draw in the Old West, Eric...
Snow in SoCal
Forget the old question about whether it rains in Southern California. Does it snow? Terry d. Chacon is here to tell you “yes,” and...
Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan…
Mike Keepness paints in the wilds of Saskatchewan, Canada, so he has some plein air stories. Usually, his visitors are quite benign, like last...
Parting Shot: An Old Rock Gets Its Due
Ernie Dollman couldn’t find anything to paint. So he just painted anything. And he ended up with a picture he was quite fond of....
My Favorite Place to Paint: Carol Strock Wasson
Indiana artist Carol Strock Wasson found an abstract shape near her home that makes the spot her favorite place to paint.
Lead Image: “Late...
Urban Sketchers: Sketching Animals Wild and Familiar
Sketching people is fun. But Roz Stendahl is interested in the other animals one sees in cities. She recently had a field day at...
What the Rocks Tell Us: Thank You
In the last of this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the...
Parting Shot: O, Those Pesky Onlookers!
Many plein air painters have horror stories about passersby hanging around, hovering over their shoulders, watching them paint, and making comments. Gregg Holmes is...
What the Rocks Tell Us: On to the Modern World
In this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the landscape. Holt studied...
The Foldable Landscape
Lili Schuch realized that her sketchbook had at some point become the artwork.
Lead Image: The small format of a sketchbook provides portability and...
My Favorite Place to Paint: Jean Koeller
Jean Koeller has fallen in love with a place of turquoise waters and fascinating rock formations. In many ways, it reminds her of a...
Early Influences: Garin Baker
One piece so captivated a young Garin Baker that his mother had to drag him out of the room at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Further Afield: Painting Mongolia
“I don’t know anyone else who is painting the landscape there on location.” California artist Susan Fox isn’t talking about a park. She’s talking...
What the Rocks Tell Us: The Legacy of Pangaea
In this series of articles, Utah artist J. Brad Holt talks about what artists are seeing as they look at the landscape. Holt studied...
Using Architectural Elements for Contrast
San Diego artist Danny Griego finds that incorporating “urban line” in his paintings makes them much stronger — and mimics the way many of...